Oh, why did not
someone tell me sooner?" wrote a lady who had
passed through some very trying spiritual
experiences that had been made far harder
because they had been misinterpreted. It had
been the Author's privilege to explain some
things through which she was passing. She had
experienced great relief of mind and spirit by
coming to look on her troubles in a new and
clearer light.

About the
same time another person, after receiving an
explanation of difficulties and being instructed
how to meet them wrote, "If I had known these
things years ago I might have been spared many
things and my life thereby made far happier than
it has been."

The
receipt of hundreds of such letters and the
personal testimony of other hundreds of people
through the years spent by the Author in
evangelistic work and the twenty one years on
his bed as the result of accidental injuries,
have convinced him that there is much need for a
treatise covering some of the vital principles
of life and experience common to so many of us.

It has
been the Author's purpose to illuminate, as far
as his ability goes, the Christian pathway, as
well as to point out some of the underlying
principles of Christian life and experience. If
he has succeeded in doing so in a way that will
be helpful to others to an extent comparable to
the gratifying results of his more personal work
and correspondence he will feel he has been well
rewarded for his labors. He hopes he has
succeeded in making clear the way into the
joyfully victorious life and that the reader may
walk life's way with the "everlasting joy" that
belongs to those who have learned the Secret of
the Singing Heart.